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POLSON — Seventh grade students from the Polson Middle school gathered along the sunny shoreline of Salish Point on Friday morning as part of an educational series in the ongoing fight against aquatic invasive species. Friday’s event, hosted by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and Montana State Parks, is one of five Flathead Lake shoreline community mussel walk events scheduled at various locations around the lake this month to discuss aquatic invasive species detection and prevention.  Guest instructors provided educational activities for the more than fifty students on topics such as mussel identification, prevention and detection. Students also learned a...

News from Salish Kootenai College PABLO – The Salish Kootenai College will be hosting the annual Powwow and Graduate Honoring on May 10 and 11 with Grand Entries starting at 7 p.m. in the Joe McDonald Health and Fitness Center. There will be concessions, vendors and raffles with all proceeds going...

From MSU News Service BOZEMAN – Montana State University is seeking artists’ qualifications for public art for the university’s new American Indian Hall. The university is seeking qualifications from professional or emerging artists, or teams of artists, to produce original, site-sp...

News from Rebekah Knudsen-Dalbey for TERS  PABLO – The Art Slam is an annual event at Two Eagle River School, which has been going on for 17 years. The event is mainly organized by Sean Dalbey, art instructor at Two Eagle.  The Art Slam is where art show and talent show meet. Students...

News from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service  MONTANA – On Friday, April 19, the National Junior Duck Stamp contest was held at Patuxent National Wildlife Refuge in Patuxent, Maryland. Entered in this contest was Montana State Junior Duck Stamp Best of Show, “Splash Down,” a beautiful...

UM News Service YELLOW BAY – Flathead Lake Biological Station Director and Bierman Professor of Ecology Jim Elser has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of his distinguished and continuing achievements in scientific research. “We are so pleased that the scient...

News from the Montecahto Club This year, the Montecahto Club is offering a new scholarship in addition to its annual one in conjunction with the Polson Scholarship and Education Foundation. The new $500 Continuing Education Scholarship is for an individual seeking vocational or technical certificatio...

News from Judy Preston, scholarship administrator                                                                          ...

ST. IGNATIUS – The St. Ignatius School District opened the doors to the public on Thursday evening for the annual Community Showcase to give people the opportunity to see all the great things students of all grade levels have been working on this year.  In the schools, the walls were filled wit...

News from St. Ignatius School District   ST. IGNATIUS – The St. Ignatius School District is among the top 50 schools in the running to win a $75,000 art education donation thanks to the Vans Custom Culture competition.  Students need your help to rally the community to help them become...